Found this on a running forum and thought it was fun:
http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html
Turns out I am 100% Kucinich. That surprised me. Not that his name came up but the 100% part of it.
The ensuing discussion on the running forum dealt with people being surprised with who they matched with and the whole issue of do you vote for who you think will have a chance to win or do you vote for you support?
I had a discussion many years ago with a former boss who told me I 'threw away' and 'wasted' my vote by casting it for Nader. I asked him why and he replied because Nader had no chance to win. Sorry boss. I vote for who I think is best and I don't consider it 'throwing away' my vote. This is really ringing true to me this election cycle where it seems the press is already shoving a couple annoited candidates down our throat. I mean, for crying out loud, if it wasn't for Bill Maher, poor Ron Paul wouldn't get a lick of press. I thought we chose, not the press.
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I took it and it said that my candidate was Christopher Dodd at 85.71%. I always thought I had more republican views, but I guess not!! My first 4 top matches are Democrates. I guess what really suprised me was my other top match was John Edwards?!? I guess I still have to do my homework on the candidates. But you are right, the media gives its attention to a certain few!!! Who ever has the most money wins - isn't that the saying?
Yeah, people said the same thing to me when I voted for Nader. Maybe if I wasn't in a heavily blue state, I'd consider voting "the lesser of two evils", but I had to vote my conscience! I had to respect myself in the morning! I voted green in 2004 too!
We were talking to someone who took that quiz and was, like, 97% Kucinich... she was surprised too!
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